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Message   Shotgun    rainbird   Time and the Costitution   December 2, 1995
 11:26 PM *  

Re: Time and the Costitution

>   At the time the constitution was written, there WAS NO STANDING ARMY, and
> each man was expected to help defend the nation.  THAT is the meaning of the
> term "militia."

     Not according to those that are most fluent in the language of the day,
and also constitutional law.

     Militia has ALWAYS meant those people NOT in the army.  That's all of
us, NOW as well as then.

     It also says that it is necessary for a free state, meaning they
recognized then that a government couldn't victimize an armed citizenry.

                                           Shotgun 

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